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DETERMINATION of the plastochron, or time interval between the formation of successive leaf primordia, suffers from the difficulty of establishing the age of a primordium at any particular stage of development. An autoradiographic technique has been successfully used for obtaining an estimate of the plastochron of Ranunculus by indirect means.
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FISHER, F. Plastochron Determination in Ranunculus using Carbon-14 Dioxide. Nature 178, 1300–1301 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781300b0
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